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Yankee Air Museum
The Yankee Air Museum is an aviation museum located at Willow Run Airport in Van Buren Township, Michigan. The museum has a small fleet of flying aircraft and a collection of static display aircraft outdoors. History The Yankee Air Force Inc. was founded in 1981 to pursue these goals: * To preserve a part of Michigan's extensive aviation history. * To acquire one of the original USAAF hangars and restore it to its original condition. * To obtain a B-24 Liberator built at the Ford Willow Run plant, site of the museum. The Yankee Air Force previously operated four divisions in addition to its home base: * Saginaw Valley at Saginaw County H.W. Browne Airport in Michigan * Wurtsmith Division at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan * Northeast Division at Essex County Airport in New Jersey * Florida Division in Florida 2004 fire On the night of October 9, 2004, the Yankee Air Museum's hangar on the northeast side of Willow Run Airport (KYIP) burned down. The B-17, B-25 and C-4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willow Run Airport
Willow Run Airport is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Township, near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States that serves freight, corporate, and general aviation. Due to its very close proximity to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, no major airlines schedule passenger flights to or from Willow Run. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a national reliever airport facility. Opened in 1942, "Willow Run" was synonymous with the American industrial effort that contributed so much to Allied victory in World War II. Operated by the Ford Motor Company, the Willow Run manufacturing plant produced a total of 8,685 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers, completed and in kit form, before closure in April 1945; Willow Run produced more Liberators than either plant owned by the plane's designer, Consolidated Aircraft. Today the Yankee Air Museum, located in one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeing B-17 Survivors
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allies of World War II, Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, including 38 in the United States. Fewer than 10 are Airworthiness, airworthy. Of the 12,731 B-17s built, about 4,735 were lost during the war. After the war, planes that had flown in combat missions were sent for smelting at Aircraft boneyard, boneyards, such as those at Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge, Walnut Ridge and Kingman Airport (Arizona), Kingman. Consequently, only six planes that survive today have seen combat. Most of the other survivors were built too late to see active service and then were used through the 1950s and 1960s in military and civilian capacities. Many are painted to represent actual planes that flew in combat. Surviving aircraft , 18 B-17s are registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These include '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeing PB-1G Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II. It is the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the multirole, twin-engined Junkers Ju 88. It was also employed as a transport, antisubmarine aircraft, drone controller, and search-and-rescue aircraft. In a USAAC competition, Boeing's prototype Model 299/XB-17 outperformed two other entries but crashed, losing the initial 200-bomber contract to the Douglas B-18 Bolo. Still, the Air Corps ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation, then introduced it into service in 1938. The B-17 evolved through numerous design advances but from its inception, the USAAC (later, the USAAF) promoted the aircraft as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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